Exam 11: Sustaining Aquatic Biodiversity

A fishing method called, ____ fishing, is used to catch surface-dwelling species such as tuna, mackerel, anchovies, and herring, which tend to feed in schools near the surface or in shallow areas.

As a result of changes in and around the Everglades, it is now less than __________ its original size and much of it has dried out.

Approximately 99.2% of the world's oceans are not effectively protected from harmful human activities.

Despite their ecological value, the United States has lost more than ____ of its coastal and inland wetlands since 1900.

The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan has several goals. Which goal below is not one of them?

Some fisheries biologists and managers have begun using the ____________________ to replace the maximum sustained yield.

HIPPCO is an acronym that aids in remembering ____.

Bioinvaders can be blamed for ____ of all fish extinctions in the U.S. since 1900 and have caused huge economic losses.

The _______________ marine biodiversity occurs in coral reefs, estuaries, and on the deep-ocean floor.

Strategies for protecting the earth's precious biodiversity will not be implemented without bottom-up political pressure from individual citizens and groups.

Sea turtles spend most of their lives traveling throughout the world's oceans, but adult females almost always return to the beaches where they were born to lay their eggs.

Governments around the world give a total of more than $30 billion per year in subsidies to fishers, which partly contributes to overfishing.

Which of the following is defined as the area of ocean needed to sustain the fish consumption of an average person, a nation, or the world?

Ocean pollution from plastic items dumped from ships and garbage barges, and left as litter on beaches, kills up to ____ sea birds each year.

For every shark that injures or kills a person, people kill about ____ sharks.

In 2011, an international panel of scientists concluded that because of a combination of habitat loss, overfishing, pollution, and ocean acidification, marine life is poised to enter a new period of ____.

What is CITES?

While leatherback sea turtles survived the impact of the giant asteroid that probably wiped out the dinosaurs more than 60 million years ago, they and other sea turtle species may not survive the growing ____________________ on their environment.

The first letter "P" in the acronym HIPPCO stands for ____.

Oceans will become more acidic as a result of the absorption of carbon dioxide.